Cosmos Incorporated, by Maurice G. Dantec

This was the second of three books that I experimented with, and it also failed the "first chapter" test. I felt that the author went way too overboard trying to be technical and "computeristic". Some interesting potential, but even I who am into the geeky computer jargon thing got lost with this one. I wanted a semi-believable escape into a surrealistic future, not a reference manual.